Mark Zuckerberg has taken a lot of hits for the relentless scope creep of Facebook’s privacy settings. About a year ago, when the backlash began in earnest, Ryan Singel wrote of Zuckerberg’s “dreams of world domination,” while Robert X. Cringely decried Facebook’s “Wonderland-like labyrinth of privacy controls.”

On the other hand, since the arrival of the Arab Spring, Facebook’s defenders have pointed to the power the social network has given would-be revolutionaries to organize protests and quickly spread information about the atrocities being committed by their oppressors.

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